![]() ![]() That said, since we humans need data to make decisions and roughly 80% of that data comes to us visually, the less light there is the less data we receive and the harder our decisions are to make. True darkness-a total lack of light-is hard to find (ask any insomniac who depends on it to get a good night’s sleep). What most of us refer to as “dark” is really something between dusk and star light. Let’s take a look.Īs we discuss technologies that help us see in the dark, it’s first important to understand that very few circumstances are truly dark. This article will take a look at three technologies that do one or the other.Īll of them specifically empower “seeing” in low-light conditions but at least one of them also can serve other purposes in bright light conditions as well. There are plenty of other tools that can either augment, or replace the use of, the flashlight. Even taking into consideration the amount that was learned about light, strategies of use, decision making, and more, it was just the tip of the iceberg where operations in low-light conditions are concerned. How complicated can the training be? The chief hesitantly relented and the training officer spent a week attending the low-light course. The chief was understandably surprised because, after all, it’s using a flashlight right? You turn it on and you turn it off. It was almost 20 years ago that a chief of police received a request from his training officer to attend a low light operations course. ![]()
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